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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Frieda's job at the taproom?
(a) Serving beer.
(b) Cleaning the floors.
(c) Talking with customers and getting them to buy her drinks.
(d) Dancing.

2. What answer does K. get when he calls the Castle himself for permission to visit?
(a) He is told he must wait three days.
(b) He is told he can come at once.
(c) He is told no.
(d) He is told he must fill out the right forms.

3. Do the people in the house know about K.?
(a) Yes, they have heard talk about him.
(b) Yes, but they pretend not to know of him.
(c) No, they have never heard anything about him.
(d) No, they have only heard vague rumors of a stranger in town.

4. Who does K. say is the only person with authority to fire him?
(a) The principal.
(b) The Count.
(c) The chairman.
(d) Klamm.

5. Who does K. meet and ask questions about the Castle?
(a) A stonemason.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A cartographer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What document does the chairman try to locate?

2. What reason does Frieda's mother give for letting K. stay in the inn when he first arrived?

3. How did the landlady meet her husband?

4. What does K. think of the Castle when he goes to look at it?

5. What does the landlady say about Barnabas' family?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason does K. give for refusing to let the assistants come back?

2. What reason does the teacher give that the chairman wants to help K.?

3. What does K. ask Frieda about when he first meets her?

4. What does K. praise Frieda for?

5. What message does K. send through Barnabas to Klamm?

6. What does K. call Artur and Jeremias and why?

7. What does the landlady say will happen to the record of K.'s talk with the gentleman?

8. What is K.'s attitude toward the gentleman in Chapter IX?

9. Who are the people in the house K. stops at on his way toward the Castle?

10. How does K. feel at the end of Chapter VIII?

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